Beyond Addiction

For a while now, I’ve been toying with the idea of setting up an online shop – a central place where you can buy anything I do – and have been working quite hard at making some work to sell for a few days. Simple.. I thought.. Paypal.. no problem..

So, I have had to set it up somewhere else at short notice. Better that than a deleted blog, hmm?

“Beyond Addiction” is a new, limited edition work by me. There are ten of them, handmade, each signed and numbered by the artist (that would also be me). The piece is made of cigarettes, pins, card, and emergency keyholder frames. The dimensions are: (h) 119mm x (w) 119mm x (d) 33mm, and come with fixing instructions and a couple of screws and wallplugs.

It’s been crazy precision work with a scalpel for the past few days, and I am cross-eyed, sore of hand, wrist and elbow, as I’ve basically made this work about 3 times more than what I needed to, just to get everything to be perfect. I spent a whole afternoon just trying to get the white card to be the right size to fit in the back of the tray. Another day spent cutting them (I threw about 15 away because they were too ragged). And so on.

Anyway, we’ll see if this works. This is my first attempt at selling artwork online, and I’m quite excited by the thought of people owning a piece of original artwork by me – so it’s a bit of an experiment to see how it goes.

8 Responses to Beyond Addiction

Good Luck with this! It’s a good idea – really hope it works for you. Have thought of similar myself. There ought to? … Must be? easy(ier?) ways for small operations to get started with selling online. I’m sure some people are very successful. I would imagine it’s all to do with marketing techniques… As in: marketing in the sense that you can convince your potential audience to part with the hard-earned, etc. I hear of artists in the States and around Scandinavia who have been successful with selling their artwork online; I guess it just depends on which work(s)and what price(s). Anyway, all the best!

http://shop.doodleblog.co.uk/.. Here’s someone who’s making it happen.. (I was trying to think of his name last time I wrote here but couldn’t remember.. have now had time to go back and find his link for ya… He’s a graphic designer rather than an artist as such.. I believe he’s designed this site and it looks rather well I think 🙂 – I wish I had his site-building abilities anyway… I mean it’s no good doing it yourself if the result looks rubbish 🙁